To broaden the base on this Year Anniversary of the growth and opportunity project. We want to get your thoughts. The rnc is claiming that the project that they are making progress. For our first 45 minutes, we want to talk about the growth and opportunity projects and get your thoughts on the effort being made by republicans. Democrats, 202 5853880. Republicans, 202 5853881. Independents, 202 5853882. On social media, off of twitter, cspanwj. N is our page. Spa. Nd journal cspan. Org a little background provided by abc news saying that the party has a long way to go on the front. They have hired a national and yelled staff to communicate with constituents like africanamericans, hispanics, and asianpacific voters. The partner must the party must stop talking with itself. They have been trying to woo Younger Voters and women, both will be crucial if they are to win the white house back. Clinical of the political staff is in the states, including data directors and minority engagement staffers. And theydoing outreach have hired staff to connect directly with minority groups. What is not clear is if it is working. The rnc outreach tools helped in the recent florida 2013 victory. Of the rnc says that we are setting a new standard at the rnc and putting ourselves on a path to victory14. One year later, all the republican has gotten is one year older. We will share more of their thoughts on the projects. And effort by the rnc reaching out to minority groups and others in what you think about it as part of their growth and opportunity project. It is the oneYear Anniversary of the. The numbers are democrats, 202 5853880. Republicans, 202 5853881. Independents, 202 5853882. Of some of a sense the marketing done as part of the project, the rnc put out an ad on it. It is called i am a republican. Here it is. [video clip] children should be the focus of our education system. A Strong Military equals a strong america. There should not be so much red tape. Every human life is worth protect him. I vote for and all of the above energy policy. I am a republican. I believe in opportunities for all. The commercial that is coming out of the growth and opportunity project in an effort to reach other groups by the rnc. Your thoughts on the first 45 minutes. The numbers are on the screen. Capitol heights, maryland. The kratz line. If they want to know how to put a team together, someone may need to consult with because you have to get everyone from different neighborhoods is. You have to find the leaders of each neighborhood because those of the people that follow. Host it goes down to the neighborhood level and works up from there. Caller and has to start from the innercity neighborhoods first. Think the do you leaders can contribute to the process of trying to reach out to other groups . Those leaders, i cannot comment on that one. Host lawrence, kansas. Republican line. Caller thank you for taking my call. The Republican Party has failed miserably. Look at the recent president ial election. , theyomney and paul ryan tried, but they failed miserably i willery time tell you something all they focus on is abortion issues. They do not focus on infrastructure and in washington. They do not focus on how our military can be strengthened. Theyre not focusing enough on getting our military strength ened, even through the ridiculous sequestration process. Host what do think about the effort being made . Caller they are not doing enough. The Republican Party it is sad to say that the Republican Party has been a humongous disappointment to this taxpayer. They are notu say doing enough, what do you mean by that . Caller they are not focusing on many of us who are working our tails to the bone every day, they are not working hard enough to ensure that we get our fair share of the tax cuts and they to go outing enough support andow their do something for the veterans and the families in our current personnel serving in uniform in our military. Host don, ohio, republican line. Caller good morning. If republicans keep doing this, [indiscernible] i dont like his policies, but i like his charisma and it is one of those things, Start Talking to the community. Right now, the Republican Party, they do a credit check on you. I vote for the candidate, not the party. Host what you think about the effort to reach out to more groups . Caller they have been doing it since the civil war. Since Teddy Roosevelt organized neighbors and republicans got wind of the likes of both. Look at the american history. I think they have been doing it ever since the Republican Party got started. Right up to george w. Bush. They have been doing a great job. They finally started advertising it. The releaset of an update, there have been back and forth tweets. Saying ose tweets facts are hard. Gop rebrand cannot gloss over bad policies with words. Have been going back and forth, taking a look at these. Hings wit that is part of the process of this growth and opportunity project that has been going on. Releasede that was yesterday by the rnc, we are asking you about the efforts being made by the rnc to reach out to these groups. The lines will be on your screen. Democrats, 202 5853880. Republicans, 202 5853881. Independents, 202 5853882. Here is steve, independent line. During the bush years, since reagan, reagan to bush, i was straight republican. Independent when the tea Party Started taking over. Minoritieswith the i know they started that during the bush years. They were focusing in on that. The tea party scared me. I went independent. There comes a point when you have to govern. You do not take such an extreme position to scare people. It is sad. During the bush years, the social policies fit for the minorities. Andle forget that latinos with the africanamericans, they are raised in church, a lot of them. A lot of the republican policies fit for them. They scared them. The tea party scares them on social policies. David, columbia, missouri, democrats line. Good morning. The republicans involved when they went through the last election, they got voted in, promising jobs and other kinds of things. They have done nothing to work at that at all. That is all i have to say. A little bit more of the exchange between the heads of the dnc and rnc. Good luck on the ground game. Response, keep beating manchester. When the ground game and beat you again like we did in 2012 in 2013, you will need more than words and an autopsy. Anniversary of it. We are getting your thoughts on the effort by the rnc. You is off of twitter people would disagree with the i dia with the idea espoused in the gop ad. We will hear next from springdale, arkansas. Independent line. Good morning, bill. Caller i remember in the 80s when they what was the thing between mexico, usa, and canada . Host the free trade agreement. Caller that is correct. They said we were going to lose a lot of jobs, but they would be replaced with higherpaying jobs. 25 to 30 years later and the only Jobs Available are service drops service jobs. All the products we buy in stores are from china. We are being accused of causing garbage in this country. Every problem this country faces caused by the federal government forcing peoplees to volunteer for socialist security. If you look at the history, you will see that you are no longer in a free country america. Wake up. John, decatur, illinois. Caller good morning. All i have to say is dont talk about be about. Host what you mean . Caller listen to the calls that come in. They talk a good game. They promised they are going to do jobs, jobs, jobs. In, they went after voting rights. Good day. It is the Paul Campaign for illinois governor between uner. Uinn and bruce ra earth withorched groups in a vested interest in the highstakes race. Quinn was on tv with an ad attacking the wealthy for shifting positions on raising illinois minimum wage. You go underneath, it deals with senate races. Senator durbins run for reelection promises to be a contestoughandtumble in which longtime democratic lawmaker has key advantages. Overpriced oberweis emerge the victor, capturing 56 of the xs 44 . Doug trua the republicans their ads are not going to cut the mustard at all. When they will not give Unemployed People the extended benefits, when they cut off food stamps, when they fall all over each other to send a billion dollars to ukraine, they do not people or poor minorities at all. Thank you. Host no way of changing that . Caller i dont think so. Host james, georgia, republican line. If the Republican Party would quit cussing the union so much and help the middle class people a little, that would help them get a few votes. I am a 75yearold republican, but i do not agree with the cuts with why they cut the unions. States are crucial to the president S Health Care plan. That is why the Obama Administration has focused so much attention on california, texas, florida, new york, georgia, illinois, north carolina, ohio, pennsylvania, and new jersey. One of the states, they look at texas in this mornings usa today. The state declined to participate in the marketplace officials have been openly hostile to the wall. Fewer than 10 of those eligible enrolled as of march 1. Is one of the graphics saying penalty box, federal levies for not buying Health Coverage will exceed the 95 many people expect. 199 if a listing of you are single with 30,000 adjusted gross income. 297 for a married couple with two dependent children. That rises to 1297 if you are married with two dependent children. Two dependent children with ofadjusted gross income 150,000. Caller the Republican Party needs to do more education. They need to tell the folks what in the system that we have. Socialistssives are and communists. No one talks about that. That is a Good Opportunity to educate the people what is happening to the country. We are going into a socialist state and no one seems to want to discuss that. Host what do republicans have to say . They need to do a lot of education. Only have to go to the webpage and look at the agenda and the democrats agenda. It is the same. Virginia,olk, independent line. This is cleveland. Hello. Republicans want to get more blacks, they will have to help the president more. They have shown no interest in trying to work with a black man. [indiscernible] they want to blacks, they need to work with the president. Both parties have to Work Together, come together to try some to try to solve some of the problems in this country. They need to start showing that they are going to work with him and accomplished some new things that need to be accomplished. Host some of the goals listed one ofby the rnc to ads in which you saw was hire Minority Communications directors and political directors. Better data gathering and analysis. Also, to design programs targeting early voting and absentee voting and to recruit candidates to navigate our demographic challenges. The autopsy report that was put out last year this is part of that. The rnc is leaving progress on that. Is claiming progress on that. Democrats, 202 5853880. Republicans, 202 5853881. Independents, 202 5853882. Jimmy on the democrats line. Caller i just had something to say about the hypocrisy of the Republican Party. People need to hear this. When Chris Christie treated the president like he should have been treated, the whole party got mad at him. Is like a fifth grade school argument. If you speak to them, i am not going to like you anymore. Damnest thing i ever saw. If it means anything about an hour reach. They need to stop being so hypocritical. To impeach a president because of an affair, and here they come with their president and Vice President who started a war over a lie, which was an impeachable offense. Bush should have been impeached and cheney should have been carried before a firing squad. The head of the rnc spoke ,bout National Issues specifically the president s Affordable Health care plan and how that will impact going into 2014. You can see the full comments on our webpage. [video clip] , these are races where granted, the candidate did a nice job of offering a positive vision, they did do a decent job at that. You had the nationalization of barack obama and obamacare and both of those places. It is a poisonous issue for democrats. There were National Issues that 2008. S in 2006 and Assembly Races you are losing across the country because of isional issues that that what is happening across america and it will happen in 2014. The question is whether or not we can build on that to get to 2016, put a candidate on the ballot that people want to sit down and have a beer with and be a party to speak to peoples hopes and aspirations and whether they like and relate to the people to the person that we have on the ballot in 2016. Host lantz, springfield, missouri, independent line. I appreciate cspan and what you do. You do a Great Service to the people. I am an independent, but i tell you why i will be voting republican this upcoming election cycle. Out of a massive recession, there is no jobs around, no a port mobility. Ushave obamacare dropped on and i am not going to be dictated to. Obama talks about raising a minimum wage. That is fine, but where will they four or five years ago when they had complete majority in both houses and the white house and inflation was running just as rampant. Gasoline and milk is four dollars a gallon. No one can afford anything. Thank you. You go, in light of what you said, what you think about the efforts to reach out to groups and efforts being made on the state level as well . Caller they will not have to do that much reaching out. They have done a lot of reaching out in the bush years that no one gives any credit for. They wanted to pass Immigration Reform. They got a lot of latino support. Libertiesore personal , more personal freedoms and less friction that we feel is people and free things up for us to prosper and giving us opportunity to climb up the ladder. Host you dont think that is the message they are delivering . Caller i do. I do think that is the message that is coming out from the grassroots section of the Republican Party. Host who best represents the grassroots section as far as the candidates are concerned . Caller i would say rand paul. Loop, indiana, republican line. Good morning. It seems to me like you get a lot of criticism and outcry from against the republicans. I am a republican myself. I have been unemployed and for overt a good job two years because of the obamacare stuff. They want to play that game and try to skew things that way. I feel like when you talk about Republican Party, there are so many different views. There are the conservatives and moderates and all that. You have a lot of diversity. Aroundnt to try to turn and confuse people. A goaluses no one has or koranic view of what we need to do. Goal or correct viewable we need to do. The democrats have their view, their view is it. That is the problem. They have one view and if it is not their view, you are a racist and you are crazy and you are antiamerican. I find that ridiculous. Ist the Justice Department pending to make an announcement like him to toyota. Charles levinson writing that it could be as early as today that it could be announced that the automaker will cost more than 1 billion spend more than 1 billion and a criminal probe into its disclosure of issues. The deal would cap a fouryear investigation with one of the largest fines ever imposed on an automaker. Misleading statements about safety problems that were revealed by its own internal audits. Misleading statements to the government and to the public about the safety issues. The automaker has been fined four times for a total of 66. 2 htsa for failing to report safety defects to the government. Hearing over the last few days about gm and its recall over the ignition switch. Motors ceo, mary barra said she will testify personally before congressional committees looking into gms handling of vanishing and ignition switch problem that has been linked to 12 deaths. She apologized for the handling of the problem and ballot better vigilance on safety to prevent future defects from going unfixed. Caller thank you for cspan. It breaks my heart to hear republicans calling in blaming the obama care for everything. That would be nothing the republicans can say to me. You have to look at their actions and everything they have done. It has been against poor, likeloyed, and people that. We do not have jobs because every time they house the. Epublicans, they pass a bill the senate is not going to pick that up and obama is not going to approve it. If you do not have health care and you are still going republican, if you unemployed and cannot get benefits and you are still voting republican, if theyre cutting food stamps and you are poor, regardless if you are white or black, and you still vote republican, if they denied you Birth Control and the men cannot take care of all those children and you are still voting republican, my god, what is going on . Republican cannot say anything to me. I look at what they do and not what they say. Al, pennsylvania. Toler the republicans have discuss the import of foreign labor. There are millions of unemployed americans. The Unemployment Rate among young black folks is over 25 . The chamber of commerce insist newringing over one million cheap foreign labor workers every year. They want to legalize the seven or 8 million illegal aliens that are holding jobs in our country. Put in an even verify system antiverify system they cannottem so come into a country and take jobs. We have to limit the import of cheap foreign labor. That would be a big point for the republicans. It is young minority guys that are hit the hardest. Talking about the 2014 optimism. A respo